A Commentary on the New Testament from the Talmud and Hebraica (4 vols.)

John Lightfoot’s Commentary on the New Testament from the Talmud and Hebraica uses rabbinical literature to comment on the text of the New Testament, and to help modern readers understand the textual background from within the framework of Jewish literature. Lightfoot makes full use of Hebrew and Aramaic literature to provide thorough commentary on the New Testament. He uses Jewish sources not only to illuminate textual matters, but also the social and cultural context of the people, places, and events in the New Testament. This important work is meticulously written and has served as a model for synthesizing the New Testament with Jewish literature in the four centuries since its first publication. Lightfoot’s commentary covers the Gospels, Acts, portions of Romans, and 1 Corinthians.

With the Logos Bible Software edition of John Lightfoot’s Commentary on the New Testament from the Talmud and Hebraica, all Scripture references are linked directly to the original language texts and English translations in your library. Double-clicking on any word in any language—Greek, Hebrew, Latin, or Aramaic—automatically opens your lexicons and searches for a match. The entire text of Lightfoot’s Commentary is fully searchable, letting you locate specific verses, topics, or words within the entire commentary. Results from Lightfoot’s Commentary will also appear when you run searches across your entire library, helping you find references, commentary, or other details you wouldn’t find otherwise. That makes the Logos Bible Software edition the premiere edition for students and scholars, and for anyone interested in understanding the New Testament from the context of Jewish literature.

First written in Latin, A Commentary on the New Testament from the Talmud and Hebraica was first published between 1658 and 1674, and reprinted as a whole in 1675, 1686, and 1699. The first English translation was published anonymously in 1684. It was reprinted in 13 volumes between 1822 and 1825 by John Rogers Pitman—an edition popular in the middle part of the nineteenth century. By the 1850s, however, the Pitman edition was becoming “scarce and expensive,” and work on a new edition was begun. The resulting work was published in 1859 by Oxford University. It remains the standard translation of Lightfoot’s work to this day, and has been reprinted numerous times—most recently by Baker in 1979 and Hendrickson in 2004. This edition underlies the electronic edition planned by Logos Bible Software.